Hallo, jeffrey, Du meintest am 09.06.11: >> I need to verify, if I get a mail when squid dies (I put a correct >> mailaddress in cache_mgr-directive). Is there a way/hack to force >> squid to die? I tried several things like revoking permissions on >> the the cache-dir, moving cache.log away... -> but squid is still >> alive. > ps -ax | grep squid > kill -9 squid.pid No good idea - sorry. Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/ faq.html 3978 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/squid -s 3980 ? Sl 0:19 (squid) -s 24289 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep squid ------------------------- Viele Gruesse! Helmut